Learning To Be Confident, Expressive Readers

WALT be confident, expressive readers. Highway Rats group have been practicing reading to the punctuation and making their reading sound like talking.

Reading to punctuation means we pause (take a very short break) when we get to a comma or full stop. We know that an exclamation mark (!) means we read a little bit louder and with more feeling. When there are talking marks ("speech marks") we can make our voices sound like the character.

We make our reading sound like talking to make it more interesting for the audience. We can make our voices go up and down, slower or faster.

Today, Highway Rats did a great job of reading Little Dinosaur to the class to practice reading to an audience.

Our next goal is to make our reading a little bit louder so Mrs Ramsay can record it to put on the blog for lots of different people to enjoy. 

Well done Highway Rats! You showed amazing courage and determination in making your reading sound the best it can be to make it interesting for the audience to listen to.